PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agoAmerican soldiers displaying a German Panzerschreck and the small (but deadly) penetration hole resulting, France, WW2, 1944lemmy.worldimagemessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up1105arrow-down10
arrow-up1105arrow-down1imageAmerican soldiers displaying a German Panzerschreck and the small (but deadly) penetration hole resulting, France, WW2, 1944lemmy.worldPugJesus@lemmy.worldM to HistoryPorn@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squareOnomatopoeia@lemmy.cafelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-221 hours agoI don’t think there’s a ricochet, as (if my memory is right), bazookas use a shaped charge and that hole is caused by a jet of plasma. Pretty high tech for the time.
minus-squareocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·20 hours agoThat’s very cool! The plasma is caused by the heat?
minus-squaretheroastedtoaster@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 hours agoPlasma isn’t quite correct. It’s more like a jet of metal (usually copper) travelling so fast it behaves closer to a liquid
I don’t think there’s a ricochet, as (if my memory is right), bazookas use a shaped charge and that hole is caused by a jet of plasma.
Pretty high tech for the time.
That’s very cool! The plasma is caused by the heat?
Plasma isn’t quite correct. It’s more like a jet of metal (usually copper) travelling so fast it behaves closer to a liquid